Our Mission
Ujiyari (meaning "light" or "illumination") is a free, open-access current affairs platform built for aspirants preparing for UPSC Civil Services, State PCS, and other competitive examinations across India.
We believe that quality exam preparation material should be accessible to every student — regardless of their ability to pay for expensive coaching or premium subscriptions. Ujiyari is and will remain completely free.
What We Offer
| Section | What You Get |
|---|---|
| Daily Current Affairs | A new edition every morning: deep-dive articles with a Why in News box and a Facts Corner, a news roundup and a Prelims-pattern quiz |
| Weekly Roundup | 7-day consolidated summary for quick revision |
| Monthly Compilation | Subject-wise monthly notes — ideal for monthly revision cycles |
| Yearly Yearbook | Annual current affairs yearbook covering the full year |
| Editorials | Daily analysis of The Hindu and The Indian Express editorials, mapped to GS papers |
| Magazines | Notes from Yojana, Kurukshetra, Down to Earth, and other UPSC-relevant magazines |
| Vocab Builder | Curated vocabulary for Essay and answer writing |
| Key Terms | UPSC concepts with definitions, significance, and GS paper mapping |
| Revision Sheets | Daily and weekly one-page card sheets built from every article’s Facts Corner, as PDF |
| Wordcraft | A 45-minute daily English session harvested from that day’s edition, with audio and a PDF |
How We Are Different
- 100% Free — No paywall, no premium tier, no registration required
- Revision Sheets: a condensed card sheet for every edition and every week, so revision takes minutes, not hours
- Primary-source verification: every date, figure and office-holder is checked against an official source before it is published (see how we verify)
- Daily Quizzes — Concept-first MCQs based on that day’s current affairs for Prelims practice
- UPSC Mapping — Every article tagged with relevant subjects and GS papers
- Facts Corner — Every article ends with a quick-revision fact box with all key data points
- Full-Text Search — Search across thousands of articles, terms, and vocab entries instantly
How Ujiyari Is Made
Ujiyari has published a new edition every day since March 2026. This is how each one is produced, so you can judge how far to trust what you read here.
Sources
News items come from the day’s newspapers (The Hindu and The Indian Express), Press Information Bureau releases, PRS Legislative Research, ministry websites and the primary documents themselves: statute text, court orders, official reports and the IUCN Red List. Editorial analysis covers The Hindu and The Indian Express only. Aggregator sites are used to find items, never as the source of a fact.
Verification before publishing
Every event date and every office-holder is checked against a current primary source on the day of writing, and every edition passes a separate fact-check that tries to disprove its figures, names and dates before it goes live. The full pipeline, including the automated rule checks and the quiz validation, is described on How We Verify Every Fact.
Use of AI
Ujiyari uses AI tools (Claude, by Anthropic) for research, drafting and fact-checking, working from the sources above under the editor’s direction. The verification pass described here applies to AI-assisted text exactly as it would to any other draft, and the editor is responsible for everything published on the site.
Corrections
When an error is found, the page is corrected and carries a dated correction note stating what was wrong and what is right. Errors are never fixed silently. If you spot one, send it through the contact channels below; every credible report is acted on and credited.
Funding and independence
Ujiyari is free to read and is supported by advertising (Google AdSense). It is not affiliated with any coaching institute.
About the Creator
Bharat Choudhary
Bharat is a UPSC educator and developer who built Ujiyari to democratise access to quality current affairs material. He combines subject expertise with technology to deliver content that is thorough, accurate, and exam-relevant.
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Open the English Literature optional →Community Acknowledgements
Ujiyari grows because thoughtful readers take the time to spot issues, suggest features, and push us to do better. This space honours the contributors whose feedback has shaped the platform.
Adv. Nishant
With deep gratitude to Adv. Nishant, whose sharp eye and engaged feedback have repeatedly improved both Ujiyari and our sister site BharatNotes for thousands of aspirants. We thank him specifically for:
- Catching a question-vs-explanation mismatch on BharatNotes — a single screenshot of an apparently "wrong explanation" on a 2010 Prelims SLR question turned out to be a much deeper data-integrity bug: 112 question IDs were colliding across our 2024–2025 additions file and the base subject files (Polity, Economy, Geography, Environment, General Science). Any of the 112 affected questions could have shown the wrong explanation. Both layers are now fixed (all 112 IDs renumbered to be globally unique; the Retry-Weak-Topics client bundle, which was missing the 2024–2025 additions entirely, now correctly includes all 944 questions), and a permanent audit-tooling pipeline (
scripts/audit-quiz-data.py,audit-quiz-semantic.py,audit-mains-data.py) was added so this class of regression is caught automatically going forward. Semantic audit confirms 944 questions across 12 data files, zero remaining question↔explanation mismatches. Without that single screenshot, this could have quietly undermined every affected user’s revision — a sustained debt now retired. - Reporting the Indus Waters Treaty / IMLD Facts-Corner mismatch on the February 2026 monthly compilation — surfacing a subtle factual integrity bug that prompted a full audit of Facts Corners across the site and led to the correction of the Classical Languages count (6 → 11, including the Oct 3, 2024 additions of Marathi, Pali, Prakrit, Assamese, and Bengali).
- Proposing subject-based filtering on the Editorials archive — a usability enhancement now shipped as the third filter (Subject dropdown) alongside GS Paper and Newspaper, with mobile-optimised touch targets, a Clear-all button, result-count badge, and shareable URL parameters. The filter now operates on the full editorial collection (not just the 6 most recent), surfacing every matching editorial as a results card grid.
Adv. Nishant’s contributions reflect the spirit Ujiyari was built for — a public good improved in public, by the community it serves.
If you have spotted a factual error, found a bug, or have an idea that would help fellow aspirants, please reach out via the channels below — every credible report or suggestion is taken seriously and credited.
Contact Us
Have feedback, corrections, or suggestions? We would love to hear from you:
- LinkedIn: Bharat Choudhary
- Telegram: @UjiyariCurrentAffairs
If you find an error in any article, quiz question, or fact — please let us know. Accuracy is our top priority.
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